Trip Report: Day 10 Bangkok - Singapore
Last day before going home. After breakfast we decided to go to Chinatown because HT wanted to see Chinatown. Frankly speaking there was nothing much there but KW and I wanted to see whether Guava Girl was still there. To our disappointment she wasn't and we decided to leave in the taxi to visit our last temple of the trip.
We crossed the Chao Phraya river to Wat Arun where the girls had already reached. Our training in Cambodia proved useful; the steps up the temple weren't exactly challenging. That was my first time seeing the Chao Phraya river and we even had the chance to take a boat across it. That was really a part of Bangkok which I hadn't visited during my past trip.
After that we went to CentralWorld to escape the almost unbearable heat. I bought a windbreaker there and we thought that we could get the VAT refund. In the end we were 1,400 baht short of the minimum spending of 5,000 baht. At least we knew about it now.
Our late lunch was actually high tea at the Tea Room which was located at the shopping mall beside Hyatt Erawan. The high tea was really value for money; it was only 199 baht nett. There were about 15 small items and we got a piece of each. All of them added up to a full meal. HT tried to spend his remaining bahts on the tom-yam soup and crepes there which he really struggled to finish.
The girls had left their luggages to at our hotel concierge and they were supposed to be back by 5 so that we could make our way to the airport. They turned up at 5.35pm and it was really a mad rush to the airport. It was raining very heavily and it was hard to hail a cab on the street.
The hotel limousine service tried to charge us 200 baht per person; there was no way I would pay the amount and I decided to put on my jacket and go out in the rain. In the end we got 2 cabs; 1 for the girls and the other one for us. As we were running late, we agreed to the price of 400 baht for the whole cab. In the end it wasn't as bad as our first day in Changi but we hardly had time to stroll through the giant Suvarnabhumi Airport.
We left Bangkok on an unsavoury note; HT had his durian pastes thrown away because they were considered 'liquid'. The flight itself was nowhere near the epic road trips that we had gone through; except maybe for the fact that HT kept farting on the plane.
It was always nice to see the sign 'Welcome Home' at Changi. It had been a memorable trip and I'm really looking forward to the next time when I could backpack again.
We crossed the Chao Phraya river to Wat Arun where the girls had already reached. Our training in Cambodia proved useful; the steps up the temple weren't exactly challenging. That was my first time seeing the Chao Phraya river and we even had the chance to take a boat across it. That was really a part of Bangkok which I hadn't visited during my past trip.
After that we went to CentralWorld to escape the almost unbearable heat. I bought a windbreaker there and we thought that we could get the VAT refund. In the end we were 1,400 baht short of the minimum spending of 5,000 baht. At least we knew about it now.
Our late lunch was actually high tea at the Tea Room which was located at the shopping mall beside Hyatt Erawan. The high tea was really value for money; it was only 199 baht nett. There were about 15 small items and we got a piece of each. All of them added up to a full meal. HT tried to spend his remaining bahts on the tom-yam soup and crepes there which he really struggled to finish.
The girls had left their luggages to at our hotel concierge and they were supposed to be back by 5 so that we could make our way to the airport. They turned up at 5.35pm and it was really a mad rush to the airport. It was raining very heavily and it was hard to hail a cab on the street.
The hotel limousine service tried to charge us 200 baht per person; there was no way I would pay the amount and I decided to put on my jacket and go out in the rain. In the end we got 2 cabs; 1 for the girls and the other one for us. As we were running late, we agreed to the price of 400 baht for the whole cab. In the end it wasn't as bad as our first day in Changi but we hardly had time to stroll through the giant Suvarnabhumi Airport.
We left Bangkok on an unsavoury note; HT had his durian pastes thrown away because they were considered 'liquid'. The flight itself was nowhere near the epic road trips that we had gone through; except maybe for the fact that HT kept farting on the plane.
It was always nice to see the sign 'Welcome Home' at Changi. It had been a memorable trip and I'm really looking forward to the next time when I could backpack again.
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